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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
For me, every hour is grace.
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
After all, God is God because he remembers.
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Some stories are true that never happened.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Peace is our gift to each other.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.